LEAKY
What does "LEAKY" mean?
Allowing liquid, gas, or information to escape through a hole or crack.
Meanings
- Letting fluid or gas pass through unintentionally. A leaky faucet kept us awake all night.
- Prone to letting secret information escape. The campaign had a leaky inner circle. figurative
- In computing, losing resources such as memory over time. The app got slower and slower because of a leaky process. technical
Word origin
From 'leak', probably from Old Norse 'leka' meaning to drip or leak, plus the adjective suffix '-y'.
Remember it
LEAKY = LEAK + Y: the Y is the drip falling off the end.
A little poem
Tap drips in the dark-
the night counts its slow coins out,
one cold cent each time.
haiku
Wordplay
- I told my plumber a secret and my faucet at the same time. Turns out both of them are leaky.
What it teaches
What leaks is rarely the big break; it is the small steady drip you stopped noticing.
Quick facts
What does LEAKY mean?
Allowing liquid, gas, or information to escape through a hole or crack.
Is LEAKY a valid word?
Yes — LEAKY is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is LEAKY?
LEAKY has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does LEAKY come from?
From 'leak', probably from Old Norse 'leka' meaning to drip or leak, plus the adjective suffix '-y'.
What can LEAKY teach us?
What leaks is rarely the big break; it is the small steady drip you stopped noticing.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.